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Sirius and XM merger has made it through the Justice Department

By James Allan Brady on Tuesday, Mar 25th 2008 No Comments

The merger of the only two satellite radio companies has been approved by the Justice Department who determines whether or not it would negatively affect consumers or not. The only hurdle left is the FCC.

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FCC 700MHz Auction – the full results, no loose chaff

By James Allan Brady on Friday, Mar 21st 2008 1 Comment

fcclogo The big winners were AT&T, Verizon, Qualcomm, and Frontier Wireless, Google didn’t win a thing. VZW took most of the popular C-Block, and ATT picked up 227 licenses from the B-Block.

VZW seems to be the biggest spender dropping a few million short of half of what the entire spectrum sold for at 9.63 billion dollars, that secured them all of C-Block save for Puerto Rico, Alaska, and the Gulf of Mexico, basically the areas where they wouldn’t make any money anyways. AT&T spent about 6.64 billion dollars in the auction which got them a 12MHz spectrum of Block B.

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FCC Auction for 700MHz band closed – maybe

By James Allan Brady on Wednesday, Mar 19th 2008 No Comments

They expected to sell the entire band for 10 billion dollars. When bidding had closed, the D block had not sold for what they expected out of it, but the whole band had sold for a grand total of 19.592 billion.

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Clear Channel, FCC, XM, and Sirius in massive pile up, but there may be an end in sight

By James Allan Brady on Monday, Feb 11th 2008 6 Comments

So ever since XM and Sirius even mentioned the possibility that they might be merging they have had to battle the FCC, the NAB, and Clear Channel to the death. Well apparently they got past the FCC (sort of) and past the NAB and now their last opponent is Clear Channel.

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Nokia 5610 coming our way now that it’s passed through the FCC

By James Allan Brady on Wednesday, Jan 2nd 2008 No Comments

The Nokia 5610 XpressMusic is headed to one or more mobile carriers soon as it just got FCC approval. Really it’s the same as the 5310 but with a few upgrades.

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FCC filing outs the Samsung “Croix” come stateside

By James Allan Brady on Thursday, Dec 20th 2007 No Comments

Apparently that rumor from not too long ago that Verizon and Vodafone had worked out a deal to bring the Croix stateside came to fruition. Technically its called the Samsung u940 but really its just a Croix converted to CDMA for use on Verizon’s network.

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Samsung SGH-T819 coming to T-Mobile, leaked by FCC

By James Allan Brady on Wednesday, Dec 12th 2007 No Comments

This will be the third 3G phone the 3G-less network provider has dropped recently. I guess this means they are really off their rocker, or really serious about finally opening up their 3G network.

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Motorola RIZR Z6c nets FCC approval

By James Allan Brady on Monday, Nov 26th 2007 No Comments

The next addition to the RAZR-like devices is well on its way gaining the approval of the FCC. The Moto RIZR Z6c is headed to the VZW or Verizon Wireless.

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This is another one of those devices getting the “World Edition” badging due to its dual-band CDMA/EV-DO and Dual-Band GSM (900/1800MHZ) which means you can use it in most of Eurasia as well. Imagine the Motorola SLVR, but in slider form with the RAZR style keypad underneath, and that’s pretty much the RIZR in a nutshell.

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Rumor: Nokia 8800e dropping soon?

By James Allan Brady on Sunday, Oct 7th 2007 3 Comments

So a little back story, a guy found a Nokia handset that just passed through the FCC and it was called the 8900. Then he gets contacted by another guy, who apparently has the new device who tells him it’s really called the 8800e so we could be looking at 2 new, very similar Nokia devices dropping soon, or it could just be the 8800e.

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There is a confidentiality agreement filed with the FCC, but it ends on the 16th of this month. I don’t know if this is coincidence or not, but that’s apparently exactly two days before Nokia’s third quarter finances are due to be reported.

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FCC leaked details on what could be Nokia’s next internet tablet with GPS this time

By James Allan Brady on Thursday, Sep 27th 2007 1 Comment

Not much is known, as manufacturers are getting smarter and filing to have just about everything blocked from public view. What is known is that its made by Nokia, fits the pictured outline, and isn’t a phone.
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We also know that it will have Bluetooth, WiFi, and GPS all built in. Other than that we don’t know much else other than it did pass all its tests, so it should make it to market soon.